In 1916, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology relocated from its Boston Tech campus to its newly built facilities in Cambridge. During the construction of the New Technology in the May of 1915, MIT president Richard ...

Currently the process of nanoindentation is being explored as a reliable means of determining the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the constituent tubes of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) ...

Biomimetic swimming devices that employ compliant mechanisms have shown promise as an alternative to current biomimetic design approaches that involve the use of complex mechanisms. The additional stealth, ruggedness, and ...

A manufacturing process plan was developed for a welded condenser utilizing a sintered wick. Electronic devices have progressed to the point where new designs are limited by the thermal management system used to ensure ...

Constant denaturant capillary electrophoresis (CDCE) is a DNA separation technique that allows the detection of mutants at a fraction of 10Ì⁻⁶. CDCE uses a region of constant temperature and constant denaturant concentration ...

The uBox has been developed to be a solution to the medication adherence problems for a multitude of applications. The box offers a way to collect and formulate patient and volunteer adherence data for use in the field ...

The ability to resolve complex myofiber populations is important for relating architectural structure with mechanical unction in muscular tissues. To address this issue, we sought to validate the capacity of Diffusion ...

Upon examining current methods for printing and patterning of live biological cells, there is a need for a method capable of printing with the resolution of single biological cells to organize them into complex structures. ...

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the material and energy flow through the abrasive waterjet machine and the WARD recycling machine. The goal was to track all of the material, water, abrasive, energy, air, and ...

with the ultimate goal of assisting the elderly and disabled with fall prevention and mitigation as well as providing athletes with critical data for training. The force sensing footpad, originally developed for use on the ...

The manual processing of food products has become a substantial part of the daily routine of a typical household in the developing world. Consumption of oil is an essential part of an individual's diet and thus, the ...

An apparatus was developed that provides a dynamic representation of the hand-glove interaction inside a baseball glove during catching situations. Until recent history, baseball manufacturers relied primarily upon player ...

This thesis explores two methods of calculating the flow of Electrorheological fluid in a microfluidic channel in response to a gradient in an electric field: MATLAB simulation and microscopy experiments. Electrorheological ...

Bus bars on solar cells shade silicon from light. When the bus bars are patterned, they can reflect light back onto the silicon using total internal reflection. These patterned bus bars are tin plated and produce 1-2.5% ...

In this thesis a low cost motion capture approach is presented and applied to measure cyclists' kinematics. The motion capture system consists of low cost hardware and custom developed software. Based on still-frame, ...

This research investigates the production output and inventory distribution of a manufacturing system that produces multiple part types on flexible machines while incorporating CONWIP inventory controls. The production ...

The Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRL) is a wearable robot that augments its user with two robotic limbs, kinematically independent from the user's own limbs. This thesis explores the use of the SRL as a hands-free robotic ...